As senior designer at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education I provided design solutions that promote adult learning educational opportunities and conference center activities. Listening to the needs of clients and drawing on years of experience in various industries are key components to meeting client needs and deadlines. Design work includes responsive html emails, web graphics, manuals, brochures, and posters with an emphasis on quick turnaround with accuracy.Tom Brown Creative helps organizations tell their story and share their vision. My goal is to make connections and build relationships through visual story-telling—creating large graphic displays that help customers and employees see the big picture—the history, innovations, and values that have shaped the organization. Tom Brown Creative provides research, writing, design and production services to tell the story that sets an organization apart. Tom Brown Creative also provides a full range of communication services such as graphic design for marketing collateral, logo design, newsletters and illustration.

Responsibilities center around the design and production of a wide variety of materials for advertising as well as for the retail environment. This company is one of the nation's largest privately owned tire retailers and has tripled in size since 2002. I manage the visual assets of the company and am the principal designer of all advertising and marketing components. Employ strong writing skills in production of quarterly newsletter and advertising copy. Video production, retail graphics, signage, fleet graphics, and web.

I strive to provide small-to-medium size businesses with marketing communication services that exceed their expectations. Affordability is the key, assisting clients to reach their sales goals through the use of high-end design and improved communication. Clients can get more than they think, all in one place!

In my nearly six years I was actively involved in designing and art directing award-winning sales and marketing materials for consumers and insurance brokers. In this role I worked closely with writers, marketing managers, and executives. Production quality, timely delivery, managing multiple projects, and managing design staff were essential components of this job. Hiring and directing vendors and freelance personnel were also significant responsibilities.

In a dynamic environment with expanding communication needs my responsibilities included graphic design for brochures, posters, and newsletters, scriptwriting and video production for training purposes, and medium format/35mm photography. In these rolls I demonstrated a capacity to manage multiple projects, organize off-site training seminars, and work as part of a team to achieve goals; communicated directly with vendors, including printers, to assure professional results of all print materials.